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Simone de Beauvoir, philosophy & feminism /

In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bau...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bauer, Nancy, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
Series:Gender and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Is feminist philosophy a contradiction in terms? : first philosophy, The second sex, and the third wave
  • 2. I am a woman, therefrom I think : The second sex and the Meditations
  • 3. The truth of self-certainty : a rendering of Hegel's master-slave dialectic
  • 4. The conditions of hell : Sartre on Hegel
  • 5. Reading Beauvoir reading Hegel : Pyrrhus et Cinéas and The ethics of ambiguity
  • 6. The second sex and the master-slave dialectic
  • 7. The struggle for self in The second sex.